The marketers don’t make the decision. They’re underpaid wage slaves just reading script.

We’re not all hostile, but that one sure is acting like you pissed in his cereal.

Your point seems very valid to me.

I don’t even want to buy their products anymore because they constantly cancel them and remove any support.

The only ones they continue, seem to be the ones they can use for data collection .i.e. Pixels and Nests. (I shamefully own both).

It is so frustrating as a consumer. Especially when you know that you have become the product for them to sell.

I can’t say much because of the NDA’s involved, but my wife’s company is in a project partnership with Google. She works in a very public facing aspect of the project.

When Google first came on board, she was expecting to see quality people who were locked in and knew what they were doing.

Instead she has seen terrible decision making (like “How the fuck do they still exist as company” bad decision making) and an over abundant reliance on using their name to pressure people into giving Google more than they should.

I remember when their motto was “Don’t be evil”. They are the very essence of sociopathic predatory capitalism.

I went through the schools, at NAS Pensacola, to be a Rescue Swimmer.

I noticed the lights around the quad, in the main barracks, galley, and school house area, all had little metal F-18’s on top of them.

A few days before I transferred off base to the next school in my pipeline, I climbed one of the poles and took one.

It reminds me of the challenges I faced, being young, and to alway keep a bit of “Damn the Man, save the Empire” in my soul.

I have a bit of sand from Normandy which used to just remind me of the sacrifice that so many have made to fight fascism and aggression. Now it also reminds me to fight that same fascism today.

A photo of me in the color guard, for a parade in a town I wasn’t from, for people I didn’t really know, in a state I had never been. It was a summer of adventure that took me all the way across the US. It reminds to embrace the unknown, be friendly, and sometimes just letting the flow take you can lead to new, wondrous things you never could have expected

My wedding ring. It reminds me that despite the heartbreak, despair, and self loathing that came from that relationship, there were two years of delirious happiness. That not all journeys’ ends are happy or avoidable, that we need to bear through them, no matter how much you want to just end everything. You WILL look back and remember the things you got to do because you stayed, and be glad you did. To trust my gut and have the courage to make the choices my heart doesn’t want to make. It is easier to live with your own mistakes than someone else’s.

I stopped my Ring subscription but kept the doorbell camera.

It wasn’t until a year later when I was moving and the house was almost completely empty (still had internet/wifi setup) and I looked at the wifi app and saw that the ring doorbell still had significant data usage.

They were clearly still capturing my doorbell video.

If kept in a dry, room temp environment, those things will be good for 10+ years.

I’ll buy a few cases every couple of years and rotate into my natural disaster kit and use the old ones for camping/hiking.

Kids hate them, but they are so damn convenient.

+1 on using hot water though. The heaters just don’t have the punch they used to.

That was a journey.

So cute, but aren’t baby foxes called kits?

I did deploy a lot, but I recall one of my first cultural lessons and they only mentioned the three.🤷🏾

I really appreciate you taking the time to share some of your knowledge.

Thank you!

Huh,

I lived there for three years and only learned about, Kanji, Katakana and Romanji.

Is Hiragana a more classic version of the language or is it an evolution of Katakana, that it looks similar to?

My company actually got their own internal use AI that supposedly is safe for client information and is firewalled and not scraped.

It is not very useful, constantly is out of service, and I don’t trust for a second that it is secure/not scraped.

There are so many examples in your post where you place her above you and she is not equal in that return.

It is challenging, especially when you think of things like, “Love means sacrifice, or hard work.” And those statements are not wrong, but they are also easy mechanisms your brain uses to justify why you let someone shit on you.

I am coming from a marriage of 20 years and after getting therapy, finally realizing just how I much I enabled the treatment I received.

Sex is such a strong urge too, ESPECIALLY at 20. That and fear of loneliness.

I’ve got something that is worse though. 20 years I will never get back because I convinced myself if I just kept loving her, she would eventually love me back the same. That I just need to be strong and the sacrifice is worth it. Now I don’t even really know who I am anymore.

You got this in a short dating period.

I am not red pilling or any of that other chauvinistic bullshit because this applies to both partners.

Almost every single example you presented was reason enough, on its own, to leave her.

But you twisted yourself into thinking there’s no way this is what it is. You must not be seeing it right, there must be some justification for her behavior. It must not be a big deal, or you are “over reacting”.

That can be anywhere from poor self esteem to just putting your partner on a pedestal.

If your partner does something that makes you think, “I could/would never consider doing that.”, in a bad way, it is most likely not an equal or healthy relationship. (This mostly applies to how they interact with you and others.)

You are NTA, you just need to respect your own boundaries, even when it hurts.

Holy shit. Neither of you are ready for a real relationship.

She is a toxic dirtbag and you need to learn to love yourself more than the person with whom you are in a relationship.

I need some punctuation please.

I want to be supportive and I try, but sometimes fail to understand.

It definitely doesn’t help when the statement itself is so far outside of communication norms, that the statement itself has become non-binary.

It is because it is fiber optic cables.

Utilities aren’t playing chess with this, they don’t have the time/inclination.

I work on the engineering/construction side of things, in utilities. The closest we get to this is we try to use tinned wire, so anything that is bare, like grounds, don’t look like copper.

Totally agree. Going from Joel Kinnaman to Anthony Mackie was a huge let down.

The wood floats, you don’t need to worry about hull integrity of a raft since it doesn’t displace water.

Use the .50 cal on an old ship’s water line and that sucker will be listing in no time.

Use it on the canon deck and there won’t be any cannoneers left.

Edit: I am now imagining what a helo, with a GAU-2, would do to one of those old ships.

(A helo with a GAU-21 can technically be part of the ship’s compliment. Though I can’t recall if an H-60S is compatible to land, stay on board since they have the tail wheel further back and no RAST to get them in the hangar.)

You misunderstand. I went to from the A71 to the 6. I am only recently on the 9.

I am glad you have had a better experience than me. I am pretty happy with Pixel now but I am going to try the Graphene route this weekend.

I appreciate your response.